The weekly Floridian. [volume] (Tallahassee, Fla.) 1867-19??, 1887-01-27
The Indiana Democrats are bravel,


hope to elect their candidate for United
States Senator.
AT the annual election in Thomas
vile, Ga, on the 18th, there was no OPP
position to H. w. Hopkins, Esq, for
mayor, and he received two hundred and
ninety-one votes.
The Tampa papers give the figures of
arrivals at the principal hotels this year,
showing an increase of over hundred per
cent as compared with the arrivals for
the same period during two years pre-
vious.
The arrivals at the Putnam House
are now averaging about forty day,
which makes pretty good showing in
the way of " missing tourists. "-PaldtEa
Daily NeOs.
Ex-Governor Bate, of Tennessee, was
on Monday elected United States Senator.
General Bate was distinguished Confed-
crate soldier and has served two terms as
Governor of Tennessee-his second term
having just expired.
Whenever the Times Union gets
over one of it's debauches of insolence, in
justice and SANDER, it assumes the garb
and language of Uriah Heep, and cries
continually We work for Florida"
Bah Jacksonville Herald.
AT the request of Governor Perry
and Judge Foster, of Orange county, Mr..
w. L. Palmer recently visited the Indians
in the Everglades, and reports everything
quiet there, and no occasion for fearing
an outbreak.-ISevilae independent.
The Sumter County Fair will be held
in Leesburg on Thursday, Friday and
Saturday, February 9, 10 and IL. Many
good premiums are offered in field, gar
den, fruit, manufacturing, domestic, la
dies work and art departments.
The Florida Chronicle is the name
of the new paper which succeeds the De-
Land Echo. 1t is published by Messrs.
Leete & Webb, with Mr.. NJ. S. Leete as
editor, is we'll edited and we'll printed
paper and cheap at $3.50 per annum.
The Collegiate is the title of very
handsome college magazine issued by the
palmetto Literary Society" of the De-
Land Academy and College, with Miss
Lizzie Webb as editor-in-chief, and Miss
Josephine Indy, associate. Subscrip-
ton price so cents year.
The Kissimmee Leader, always
bright, independent and full of vim, has
been enlarged to an eight column paper.
We congratulate Bro. Bassett on this evil
dence of prosperity, but still more do we
congratulate the people of Kissimmee.
No surer sign of a prospecting community
Tampa Tribune.
The clean, bright, perfect fruit of our
Halifax groves is to-day keeping up the
standard of Florida oranges, and our
groves in their thrifty luxuriance are con-
yincing every beholder that our coast
hammock is their own natural home,
where even the severest winter in fifty
(that of 's5 and 's6) did not materially in
jure them.-Daytona Halifar Journal.
The Tampa Tribune has been
changed to semi-weekly, published
Wednesdays and Saturdays. The zri-
hume has always been good paper, but
since securing Bro. Mills as editor it has
excelled its old self, and the people of
Tampa are to be congratulated that it's
hon ha fx1io in
stead of once Success to the Tribune
Rissimmee Leader.
From all quarters come universal re-
quotations and denials of the assertions
of the Times Union in a recent editorial
containing one of its stereotyped "notes
of warning" concerning the assumed fail
ure of Florida's usual quota of winter Wis
itors to arrive; and the fact fully appears
that the visitors are coming quite as early
and in as large numbers as usual.-.Se-
viIe Independent.
The Pensacola Advance Gazette re-
ports the arrival of FIVE hundred members
of the Northwestern Lumbermen's Asso-
citation, who came into the old city in an
excursion train of ten sleepers The ex-
cursionists loaded four Of the swift tugs
of the port and were taken to the Navy
Yard, out on the Gulf and to the Forts,
visiting Geronimo and the other Indian
prisoners. A portion of the party took
q run over the Pensacola and Atlantic
road behind special engine, to look at
the timber lands along the line.
Major "A. ]. Russell, State Superin-
tendent of Schools, will give lecture at
the Volusis County Teachers Associa-
ton, TO be held at DeLand January 2sth
and 29th. The lecture will be given in
the place of the one by Prof Forbes.
Major r. goes at the request of Mrs.
Helen Webster, Principal of the DeLand
College. At the same time Prof Blinn,
of Indiana, will lecture on English Liter
sture. Major Russell is happiest when
placed before an audience to say word
for Florida's excellent public school sys-
TEN, and number of Orange City peo-
pie will no doubt go over to hear him.
Teachers will be returned over the j. T.
d K. w. by the Association Orange